June 2026

Early voting in New York City’s June primary election launches Saturday at polling sites across the five boroughs, with several competitive contests on the ballot. Those include high-profile congressional races in Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as a variety of state races for legislative seats and comptroller. New York does not have open primaries, so […]

A City Council member is set to introduce a bill that would expand Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s municipal grocery store plan beyond its current five store pilot. Jennifer Gutiérrez, D-Brooklyn, is a co-sponsor on the bill being introduced Thursday to ensure that city-operated supermarkets would become a permanent part of government.  Gutiérrez first started looking into

When restaurateur Steve Antonatos found out the city was planning to lock delivery trucks out of Midtown blocks — for hours at a stretch, on eight separate days during World Cup matches — the warning came not from a city official or street sign, but from his Budweiser distributor.  The beer company had sent emails

As New York City cabbies contend with a spike in gas prices and a resulting drop in business, the arrival of the World Cup could become another big bump in the road for those behind the wheel. When Morocco and Brazil face off Saturday just across the Hudson River in the first of eight local

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New York judges who sentence people to prison or jail will soon be required to make regular, in-depth visits to correctional facilities — a sweeping reform advocates hope will give jurists a deeper understanding of incarceration. Under a new rule approved by the state’s court system, judges will tour housing units, intake areas, medical and

A federal judge found former city Comptroller Brad Lander not guilty of obstructing an elevator bank inside 26 Federal Plaza during a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inside the building amid a wave of immigrant arrests there last year. U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Ricardo issued the verdict on Thursday in a Lower Manhattan